Rue Snider - Orlando

I thought that it was Disney and I didn't wanna go
It was so many miles through the sun but I didn't know
The people I would meet there who were warmer than the air
They chased away my prejudice I'd acquired unaware

There are places you think aren't cool until you go, go, go, go

I was raised in a religious cult of teenage purity
Sex was for married men and women
Gender was binary
It took some to free my mind of all that bigotry
And faith used as a weapon against humans living free

So many people believe whatever they are told, told, told, told

Orlando you're pretty groovy
Somebody told me you weren't cool
Like the Christians tried to fool me
Preaching hate and calling it truth

People might bring weapons into places that we go
To dance and sing and celebrate and hold each other close
But I will not give way to fear or hatred's easy sway
I try to wake up every morning
With gratitude to face the day
I choose to hope even when it seems insane, insane, insane, insane

A youth pastor told me
Homosexuality
Is a learned form of perversion
He taught that homophobic shit
To children
I can't get over that
To everyone it damaged

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

Orlando you're pretty groovy
Somebody told me you weren't cool
Like the Christians tried to fool me
Preaching hate and calling it truth

Written by:
Rue Snider

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